We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

[The Nashville establishment] had already figured out how to cut hits, ... They didn't need our help.

"If you want to help eliminate suffering~don’t create any.”

If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.